On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:14:56AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:25:23PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:48:03AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:09:42PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > > > > he already expressed the intention to keep it, curl 7.16.x is on the > > > > road since oct 2006. > > > > Grmbl. > > > > I wonder if it's worth adding a compat shim for the old symbol versions. > > > uh? > > It would be possible to add all of the old symbol versions to libcurl.so.4 > and provide a libcurl.so.3 -> libcurl.so.4 symlink, to provide full > backwards compatibility. I'm pondering out loud whether this would be worth > the effort of doing. > > > > > the -dev package names went from libcurl3-* to libcurl4-*. how i can > > > > keep the old ones? should i push the original scheme of some years ago > > > > in which no soname is in the -dev packages? > > > > That would be fine with me (and preferable in the general case), so long > > > as > > > packages that build-depend on libcurl3-dev can still be built -- either by > > > restoring the libcurl3-dev real package, or by making whatever the new > > > -dev > > > package is Provides: libcurl3-dev. > > > so it would be: > > > libcurl4-dev provide: libcurl-dev > > libcurl4-openssl-dev provide: libcurl-dev, libcurl-ssl-dev, > > libcurl3-openssl-dev > > libcurl4-gnutls-dev provide: libcurl-dev, libcurl-ssl-dev, > > libcurl3-gnutls-dev > > > libcurl-dev and libcurl-ssl-dev are already in place since the > > non-ssl/ssl scission, long time ago. > > > my intention is to add also a non-ssl libcurl flavour with > > libcurl4-dev. libcurl3-dev has been a transition package to install > > libcurl3-openssl-dev. hence those depending on libcurl3-dev instead of > > libcurl3-openssl would have a bug. > > That's incredibly lame, given that libcurl3-dev is what most packages > build-depend on (62 out of 73, according to 'dak rm'). My entire point was > that you shouldn't break your library's reverse-dependencies without reason!
libcurl4-openssl-dev should provide also libcurl3-dev, ok? -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://www.dandreoli.com/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
